Leading Digital Transformation: Accelerate Change for Business Impact

Today, every business is, in part, a digital business. In every industry, traditional business models and processes are being transformed by the spread of new digital technologies and the rise of new disruptive threats.

In order to adapt and thrive, organizations need leaders who can think strategically and harness each wave of digital change to create new value for customers and new opportunities for their business.

The three-day program Digital Business Strategy focuses on how executives can innovate new strategies and business models in order for their organizations to thrive in the digital age. Case studies will feature both digital trailblazers and traditional enterprises that are adapting to the digital age. Participants will leave with a set of planning tools and strategies to apply immediately in their own companies.

Impact

The course will provide executives with the frameworks, case studies, and strategic planning tools needed to adapt their businesses to grow in the digital age. Participants will learn to think strategically and lead digital initiatives related to customer engagement, data analytics, channel alignment, lean innovation, product strategy, and disruptive competition.

Summary of Benefits:

• Develop new products, services, and business models for digital customers
• Leverage your customers’ participation, data, and knowledge for competitive advantage
• Develop platform strategies to capture value beyond your own products and services
• Evaluate and manage shifting relationships with partners in your value chain
• Understand how data and analytics can be used for innovation and for smarter decision-making
• Be able to apply the lessons of lean startups to any size business
• Build a test-and-learn culture to accelerate innovation
• Adapt and evolve your value proposition to stay ahead of disruptive trends
• Think like the disruptor and assess the disruptive potential of new business models
• Lead organizational change to drive digital transformation through skills, roles, processes, and culture

Program Structure

Digital Business Strategy combines a mix of dynamic lectures, interactive discussion, and group work in small teams. Sessions will focus on strategic concepts, frameworks, and case studies of digital innovation and organizational change. Executives will apply the tools of the course to real-world business challenges, as well as to their own organizations. Strategic concepts will be illustrated through case studies of companies in diverse industries – including retail, consumer goods, b2b, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, automotive, media, technology, and business services.

Sample Session Titles:

• The 5 Domains of Digital Transformation: A Holistic Framework
• Customer Network Strategy: Understanding and Harnessing Digital Behaviors
• Platforms, Copetition, and Multi-Sided Business Models
• Big Data at Work: New Data Types, New Tools, and New Organizational Processes
• The Data Asset Map: Building the Value of Your Data Over Time
• A/B testing, Experimentation, and Minimum Viable Products
• Translating the Lean Startup to Enterprise-Scale Innovation
• Value Proposition Adaptation: A Customer-Centric Tool for Rapid Change
• The Disruptive Business Model Map: Customer Trajectories, Network Effects, and Disruptive Scope
• Surviving Disruption: Six Incumbent Responses to a Disruptive Challenger
• Leadership and the Customer Value Imperative